Disassociating Physical Standby Database from the Primary Database

I will be getting a new database server to use as a physical standby. My production database currently has an existing physical standby database associated with it. I will turn my current standby database into a test standby instance before configuring a new standby for the production instance.

These are the steps to disassociating a physical standby database from the Primary Database:

Login to the production instance.

sqlplus
SQL> create pfile from spfile;
SQL> quit

-- save original Standby configuration init file
$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/cp initSID.ora initSID.date

sqlplus
SQL> alter system set log_archive_dest_state_2=DEFER scope=both;
SQL> alter system set log_archive_dest_2='LOCATION=NULL' scope=both;
SQL> alter system set log_archive_config='NODG_CONFIG' scope=both;
SQL> alter system set fal_client=NULL scope=both;
SQL> alter system set fal_server=NULL scope=both;
SQL> alter system set log_archive_dest_1='LOCATION=/u02/oradata/arch' scope=both;

SQL> alter system switch logfile;

SQL> create pfile from spfile;

SQL> select switchover_status from v$database;
SWITCHOVER_STATUS
--------------------
SESSIONS ACTIVE

SQL> shutdown immediate

SQL> select database_role from v$database;
DATABASE_ROLE
----------------
PRIMARY

SQL> select switchover_status from v$database;
SWITCHOVER_STATUS
--------------------
NOT ALLOWED